Reflect on your experiences as a language learner. What did you enjoy? What did you dislike? Think about the FIRE model and the surveys you have just completed. What kind of learner are you? What kinds of language learning activities suit your learning style? How do you think you should expand your learning activities?
I have learned Korean for one and half year now. What I enjoy learning this language is when I hear my Korean friends talking to each other and I can understand most of the conversation. Also, when I watch dramas or listen to a song and I can understand it without any translation brings me a lot of joy. What I dislike is learning the grammar. I know grammar is an important part for a language learner but sometimes I just find it boring and complicated, but it still helps a lot when making a sentence.
From the fire model, I think I tend to be more like an insightful learner. I prefer to learn something with logical organization because it helps me understand it not just memorize it. The learning environment I had before was always a big class with more than 50 students, we learned a lot about the grammars and vocabularies. I am not sure whether this kind of learning environment suits my learning style or not, but I have learned a lot from these courses. I think I definitely should expand my learning activities such as speaking lessons or learn more topics about the sentences for daily lives.
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